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G. A. BRAGHHAUSEN. STAR WHEEL STANDARD FOR MUSIC BOXES, No.- 577,885.

Patented Mar. 2,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GUSTAV A. BRACHHAUSEN, OF RAHIVAY, NEIV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE REGINA MUSIC BOX COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

STAR-WHEEL STANDARD MUSlC -BOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,835, dated March 2, 1897.

Application filed August 11, 1896. Serial No. 602,384. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: ries of supporting-plates c, which are prefer- Be it known that I, GUSTAV A. BRACH- ably stamped up into the form shown in Fig. HAUSEN, aresident of Rahway, Union county, 2 from a flat polished piece of metal. These State of New Jersey, have invented certain plates are each provided with an aperture 01 5 5 new and useful Improvements in Star-Wheel therein for the passage of the starwheel Standards for Music-Boxes, of which the folshaft. hen a requisite number of these lowing is a specification. plates have been maintained properly spaced My invention relates more particularly to apart for the reception of the star-wheels in music-boxes; and it consists in a star-wheel the manner indicated in Fig. 3, they are sol- 60 standard of the construction hereinafter dedered or otherwise secured together for a scribed and claimed. portion of their lengths, preferably near the In music-boxes as heretofore made and lower ends or bases thereof, as indicated at wherein star-wheels were employed it has (2 in Fig. i. The standard is then ready for been customary to cast the standard for the use, and the star-wheels may be mounted in 65 I 5 star-wheels in a single piece of substantially position, one between each pair of the plates, the outline shown in Figure 5 of the drawings and the shaft f passed through the apertures and with a hole cored therethrough for the in the star-wheels and the coinciding aperpassage of the shaft of the star-wheels. The tures in the star-wheel standard, it being unst-andard was then cut with a saw, so as to derstood that theaperture in one of the plates 70 provide a series of saw-kerfs of equal extent coincides with the apertures in the adjacent divided by spacing-partitions similar to those plates, so that the shaft after having been shown in Fig. 4. The star-wheels must fit passed through the apertures in the standard closein the spaces between the partitions, and and through the star-wheels maintain said the saw-kerfs left roughened sides to the parstar-wheels in exact alinement. titions, and at times fins of metal were left The advantages of a star-wheel standard projecting therefrom which unduly retarded made in accordance with my invention over the rotation of the star-wheels. standards heretofore made and which have The object of my invention is to overcome been hereinbefore described is thought to be these and other objections to star wheel obvious. 80

0 standards as heretofore made. By my invention I am enabled to present In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is the smooth polished sides of the partitions to a vertical sectional View of a portion of the the star-wheels and no burs or unevenness of music-box, showing the employment of a the parts are had, and the difliculty heretostar-wheel standard made in accordance with fore experienced in coring out the hole which 8 5 5 my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail face and extends throughout the length of the standedge view of one of the plates of which the ard-cast-ing and through which the shaft for standard is formed. Fig. 3 is an edge view the star-wheels passes is overcome. of a series of such plates. Fig. I is a like hat I claim, and desire to secure by Letview (with parts broken away) of the same ters Patent, is o with the plates soldered or secured together. A standard for star-wheels consisting of a Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view on the line series of independent apertured supporting- 5 5 of Fig. 4. plates secured together for a portion of their The letter A in the drawings represents a lengths to form a base and spaced apart to bed-plate of an ordinary music-box, to which receive and support star wheels between 95 is secured a star-wheel standard B. The them, the apertures in one plate coinciding purpose of this star-wheel standard is to rewith the apertures in the adjacent plates for tain properly spaced apart the star-wheels a the passage of a shaft therethrough.

and to support them in position to vibrate GUSTAV A. BRAOIIHAUSEN. one or more of the music-tongues Z). The \Vitnesses;

5o star-wheel standard forming the subject- FREDERICK W. DUNHAM,

matter of my invention is made up of a se- A. MEBKLE. 

